1996

April, 1996
John Hope Bryant founded Banking on Our Future, today the leading urban delivery system for financial literacy education across America.  HOPE has educated more than 200,000 low-wealth youth in financial literacy to date. Operational in more than 700 schools and community based organizations throughout the United States, Banking on Our Future is fueled by more than 3,000 professional HOPE Corps volunteers from banking, credit unions and financial services.
 

March 18, 1996
John Hope Bryant was selected by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one their 40 Under Forty.
 

January, 1996
John Hope Bryant was selected by Swing Magazine as One of the 30 Most Powerful Twentysomethings in America.